Word: pittsfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Steinmetz' chief technical interests were: 1) "Cold" light; 2) Hydroelectric development; 3) electrified railways; 4) electric motor truck (TIME, March 10); 5) artificial lightning. His experiments pre- ceded and made possible the 2,000,000-volt flashes at the Pittsfield plant last June (TIME, June 18). Steinmetz had often predicted the course of future technical development. Last August he wrote that a four-hour day would accomplish all essential work in 2023 A.D. The steam locomotive will be obsolete, smoke eliminated. All heat, power, light furnished by hydroelectricity...
...most imortant Rubens in America, The Adoration of the Magi, has been exhibited in Toledo. ¶The American Miniature Society is exhibiting at Pittsfield. ¶The Chicago Institute has exhibited rare etchings by Rembrandt, Whistler, Anders Zorn...
Artificial lightning of 2,000,000 volts, twice the voltage ever before generated experimentally, and ten times greater than the highest voltage used in commercial transmission, was produced at a public demonstration in the Pittsfield (Mass.) laboratories of the General Electric Company, under the guidance of Giuseppe Faccioli, chief electrical engineer of the plant, and Frank W. Peek, Jr., consulting engineer, who invented much of the machinery involved...
Berkshire--J. M. Rosenthol '09, 8 Bank Row, Pittsfield...
...Fred Clinton Cronkite 3L of Centreville; N. B. (University of New Brunswick '16), Wellington Shelton Crouse 2L of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Princeton '20), Warren Maynard Driver Jr. 3L of Govans, Md. (Johns Hopkins '20), Robert Ephraim Eckstein 3L of Norwood, N. J. (Harvard '20), Edward Feldman 2L of Pittsfield (New York University), Arthur Tolliver George 3L of San Jose, Calif. (Leland Stanford '20), Thomas Palmer Helmey 2L of Garretson, S. D. (University of Minnesota '21), W. Hoffman 3L of Stege, Calif. (University of California '20), Ernest Ashley Jenkes 3L of Providence, R. I. (Brown '20), Saul Lance 3L of Brooklyn...